A collaborative virtual reality environment for neurosurgical planning and training

Neurosurgery

Volumn 61, Issue 5 SUPPL. 2, 2007, Pages

  Kockro, Ralf A ^a   Stadie, Axel ^a   Schwandt, Eike ^a   Reisch, Robert ^a   Charalampaki, Cleopatra ^a   Ng, Ivan ^b   Yeo, Tseng Tsai ^c   Hwang, Peter ^d   Serra, Luis ^e   Perneczky, Axel ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^d ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^e Volume Interactions Pte Ltd   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Neurosurgical planning; Three dimensional imaging; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; DEVICE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TRAINING; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

BRAIN DISEASES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; NEUROSURGERY;

EID: 37349006209     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.neu.0000303997.12645.26     Document Type: Article

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